Background Image

...

You Know, By The Time You Become The Leader Of A Country, Someone Else Makes All The Decisions. ... You May Find You Can Get Away With Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, Virtual Everything.

-William J. Clinton

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

You Know, By The

William J. Clinton

...

You Know, By The Time You Become The Leader Of A Country, Someone Else Makes All The Decisions. ... You May Find You Can Get Away With Virtual Presidents, Virtual Prime Ministers, Virtual Everything.

Views: 36771

Topic

More From William J. Clinton

The Most Ethical Administration In The History Of The Republic.

If You Believe In The Values Of The Constitution, The Bill Of Rights, The Declaration Of Independence, If You're Willing To Work Hard And Play By The Rules, You Are Part Of Our Family. And We're Proud To Be With You.

If, Two People Have Good Minds And They're Looking At Problems, If They Agree All The Time It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. If They Disagree All The Time, It Means One Of Them Is Not Thinking. They're Just Allowing Their Political Position To Dictate Their Position On An Issue. And I Think That's Unhealthy. And The Public Knows Better.

I May Not Have Been The Greatest President, But I've Had The Most Fun Eight Years.

The Good News Is You Can Get A Lot Of Information Off The Internet For Free And In A Hurry. But I Think The Breaking Up Of The Media, Which Is Otherwise Kind Of Healthy, Has Contributed To Less Actual Reporting And A Louder, More Contentious, More Divisive Public Discourse, Highlighting Conflict, Sometimes Falsely.

A Few Years Back, This Guy [barack Obama] Would Be Serving Us Coffee.

There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World. Those Who Have Seen The Taj Mahal And Love It And Those Who Have Not Seen The Taj And Love It.

I Misled People, Including Even My Wife.

The Hard Fact Is That So Long As Saddam Remains In Power, He Threatens The Well-being Of His People, The Peace Of His Region, And The Security Of The World.

We're Not Talking About A Few Rooms Here With Delicate Personal Matters Involved.

We're [clinton Foundation] Trying To Get Rapid Tests That Give You Results When You're Right There On Site At An Affordable Price. Ninety Percent Of The Hiv-positive People In The World Don't Know They Have The Infection. An Enormous Amount Of Infections Are Being Perpetrated By People Who Don't Know They Themselves Are Hiv Positive.

When You're President, You Have More Power To Help More People, But You Also Are The Prisoner Of Circumstances As Well, And Countervailing Political Forces More.

I Believe In Religious Liberty. I Believe In Freedom Of Speech. I Believe In Working Hard And Playing By The Rules. I'm Showing Up For Work Tomorrow.

Freedom Of Speech

Taxing Less And Spending More.. It's Fun In The Short Run, But It's A Recipe For Disaster.

If No One Consumes These Products, People Will Stop Roducing Them. They Will Not Build It If You Didn't Come.

The Struggle For Your Own Character Is The Struggle For The Nation's Character.

If You Voluntarily Quit In The Face Of Adversity, You'll Wonder About It For The Rest Of Your Life.

If You Look Back At The 1960's In The United States, And If You Think That More Good Was Done Than Harm, You Are Probably A Democrat. If You Think That More Harm Was Done Than Good, Then You're Probably A Republican.

I Had Some Words With My Wife, And She Had Some Paragraphs With Me.

I Think The Idea Of Moving To A Cleaner Energy Future And Doing More Energy Efficiency Makes Smart Sense.

I've Gained First Hand Knowledge Of The Challenges Faced By People With Disabilities. It's Made Me Understand That Those Of Us Who Have Full Use Of Our Physical Faculties Owe An Enormous Amount Of Respect And Sensitivity To People Who Don't.

The 22nd Amendment Should Probably Be Modified To Say Two Consecutive Terms Instead Of Two Terms For A Lifetime.

Throughout His Many Years, He Enriched The Lives Of Countless Others And Served As A Model Of Generosity And Discipline To Those He Met, Fostering An Atmosphere Of Compassion, Harmony, And Unity. Sri Chinmoy Was A Leader, Humanitarian, Artist, Athlete, And Public Servant Who Will Be Sorely Missed. His Legacy Of Kindness, Reflection, And Resolve Will Endure For Many Years To Come.

Our Mission In This New Century Is Clear. For Good Or Ill, We Live In An Interdependent World. We Can't Escape Each Other. Therefore, We Have To Spend Our Lives Building A Global Community Of Shared Responsibilities, Shared Values, Shared Benefits.

What Happened To Us In September, 2001, Is A Microcosmic But Painful And Powerful Example Of The Fact We Live In An Inter-dependent World That Is Not Yet An Integrated Global Community.

You Know, There Was A Recent Poll Which Said That Young People In The Generation Of The Students Here Felt It Was Far More Likely That They Would See A Ufo Than That They Would Draw Social Security... It's Very Important You Understand This. Once You Understand This, You Realize This Is Not An Episode From The X Files, And You're Not More Likely To See A Ufo If You Do Certain Specific Things.

The Ideals That Bind Us Together Are As Old As Our Nation, But So Are The Forces That Pull Us Apart.

It Takes A Long Time To Turn A Big Country Around. Just Be Of Good Cheer And Keep Working On It.

African Americans Watch The Same News At Night That Ordinary Americans Do.

African American

Profound And Powerful Forces Are Shaking And Remaking Our World. And The Urgent Question Of Our Time Is Whether We Can Make Change Our Friend And Not Our Enemy.

Tonight, I Propose A 21st Century Crime Bill To Deploy The Latest Technologies And Tactics To Make Our Communities Even Safer. Our Balanced Budget Will Help Put Up To 50,000 More Police On The Street In The Areas Hardest Hit By Crime, And Then To Equip Them With New Tools From Crime-mapping Computers To Digital Mug Shots. We Must Break The Deadly Cycle Of Drugs And Crime.

Terrorists Are As Big A Threat To Our Future, Perhaps Bigger, Than Organized Crime.

I Want To Help Communities Put Welfare Recipients To Work Right Now, Without Delay, Repairing Schools, Making Their Neighborhoods Clean And Safe, Making Them Shine Again. There's Lots Of Work To Be Done Out There. Our Cities Can Find Ways To Put People To Work And Bring Dignity And Strength Back To These Families.

We All Do Better When We Work Together. Our Differences Do Matter, But Our Common Humanity Matters More.

Common Humanity

Working Together

Globalisation Is Not Something That We Can Hold Off Or Turn Off. It Is The Economic Equivalent Of A Force Of Nature, Like Wind Or Water.

The First Thing I Had To Start With Was, You Know, We Don't Have A War. We Don't Have A Depression, We Don't Have A Cold War.

By The End Of The First Month Of The 1995 Session, Each Senator Will Have Made More Money Than Any Person Who Works 40 Hours A Week At Minimum Wage For The Entire Year.

A Few Months Ago, And Again This Week, Bin Laden Publicly Vowed To Publicly Wage A Terrorist War Against America, Saying, And I Quote, "we Do Not Differentiate Between Those Dressed In Military Uniforms And Civilians. They're All Targets." Their Mission Is Murder, And Their History Is Bloody.

Considering The Current Sad State Of Our Computer Programs, Software Development Is Clearly Still A Black Art, And Cannot Yet Be Called An Engineering Discipline.

The Other Thing We Have To Do Is To Take Seriously The Role In This Problem Of . . . Older Men Who Prey On Underage Women. . . . There Are Consequences To Decisions And . . . One Way Or The Other, People Always Wind Up Being Held Accountable.

By Lifting The Weakest, Poorest Among Us, We Lift The Rest Of Us As Well.

Character Doesn't Matter.

We Are On The Right Track To The 21st Century. We Are On The Right Track, But Our Work Is Not Finished. What Should We Do? First, Let Us Consider How To Proceed. I Say The Question Is No Longer, "who's To Blame?" But "what To Do?"

People Will Vote For Someone Who [they Perceive] Is Strong And Wrong Before They Will Vote For Someone Who Appears Weak But Is Right.

I Want To Nominate A Man Who's Cool On The Outside, But Who Burns For America On The Inside.

If A President Of The United States Ever Lied To The American People, He Should Resign.

The Best Example Of All, To Me, That Our Problems Are Both Personal And Cultural And Political And Social Is The Whole Condition Of The Middle Class Economically.

I Will Get Things Done For America.... Faced With Apathy, I Will Take Action. Faced With Conflict, I Will Seek Common Ground.... Faced With Adversity, I Will Persevere. I Will Carry This Commitment With Me This Year. I Am An Americorps Volunteer.

Only A Fool Does Not Look To Explain His Mistakes.

I Ask You To Join In A Re-united States. We Need To Empower Our People So They Can Take More Responsibility For Their Own Lives In A World That Is Ever Smaller, Where Everyone Counts.... We Need A New Spirit Of Community, A Sense That We Are All In This Together, Or The American Dream Will Continue To Wither. Our Destiny Is Bound Up With The Destiny Of Every Other American.

I Can Spend Your Money Better Than You Can.

Better Than You

It Simply Doesn't Make Any Sense For Us To Have Illegal Aliens In Our Custody In Our Courts And Then Let Them Go Back To Living Here Illegally. That's Wrong And We Should Stop It.

To Build A Twenty-first-century Economy, America Must Revive A Nineteenth-century Habit--investing In The Common, National Economic Resources That Enable Every Person And Every Firm To Create Wealth And Value.

In Our Hearts And In Our Laws, We Must Treat All Our People With Fairness And Dignity, Regardless Of Their Race, Religion, Gender Or Sexual Orientation. . . .

Shakespeare Wrote, Einstein Thought, Ataturk Built.

Now, People Ask Me All The Time How We Got Four Surplus Budgets In A Row. What New Ideas Did We Bring To Washington? I Always Give A One-word Answer: Arithmetic.

Our Generation, Like The One Before Us, Must Choose. Without The Threat Of The Cold War, Without The Pain Of Economic Ruin, Without The Fresh Memory Of World War Ii's Slaughter, It Is Tempting To Pursue Our Private Agendas -- To Simply Sit Back And Let History Unfold. We Must Resist The Temptation.

The First Thing You Ought To Do When You Find Yourself In A Hole Is Quit Digging. . . . Instead They Are Looking For A Bigger Shovel.

Finding Yourself

We Know That Progress Is Not Inevitable. But Neither Was Victory Upon These Beaches. Now, As Then, The Inner Voice Tells Us To Stand Up And Move Forward. Now, As Then, Free People Must Choose.

Think Of The Great Spirits Of The Last 50 Years: Ghandi Killed, Not By A Pakistani Muslim, But One Of His Own Hindus, Who Hated Him Because He Wanted India For The Muslims, The Sikhs, For Everybody; Sadat, Killed By The Organization That Mr. Bin Laden's No. 2 Heads Now, Not By An Israeli, But By An Egyptian. My Friend Yitzhak Rabin -- After A Lifetime Defending Israel, Killed -- Not By A Palestinian Terrorist, But An Angry Israeli Because He Wanted To Lay Down Arms And Take Up Peace... Fanatics Are Defined By Their Hatreds; Free People By Their Humanity.

Downsizing Budgets May Be Necessary, But Downsizing Dreams Is A Decision To Be Disappointed.

The Earth Is Warming At An Alarming Rate, We Are Running Out Of Fossil Fuels, And It Is Long Past Time For Us To Take Action To Correct These Problems.

One Of The Main Reasons We Ought To Re-elect President Obama Is That He Is Still Committed To Constructive Cooperation... He Appointed Republican Secretaries Of Defense, The Army And Transportation. He Appointed A Vice President Who Ran Against Him In 2008.

If You Come From A Wealthy Country With Open Borders, Unless You Seriously Believe You Can Kill, Imprison Or Occupy All Your Enemies, You Have To Make A World With More Friends And Fewer Enemies - With More Partners And Fewer Terrorists.

Leadership Means Bringing People Together In Pursuit Of A Common Cause, Developing A Plan To Achieve It, And Staying With It Until The Goal Is Achieved.

Education No Longer Stops On Graduation Day. We Must Demand Excellence At Every Level Of Education.

If The Personal Freedoms Guaranteed By The Constitution Inhibit The Government's Ability To Govern The People, We Should Look To Limit Those Guarantees.

President Obama Has Offered A Plan With 4 Trillion Dollars In Debt Reduction Over A Decade, With Two And A Half Dollars Of Spending Reductions For Every One Dollar Of Revenue Increases, And Tight Controls On Future Spending. It's The Kind Of Balanced Approach Proposed By The Bipartisan Simpson-bowles Commission.

We [united States] Are The Only Military Superpower. We Have No Idea How Long This Is Going To Last, So We Ought To Get Every Bad Guy We Can And Fix Every Problem We Can.

When You're President, You Learn To Act Like You Know What You're Talking About. And It's A Great Skill.

When We Give What We Can, And Give It With Joy, We Don't Just Renew The American Tradition Of Giving, We Also Renew Ourselves.

When Galileo Discovered He Could Use The Tools Of Mathematics And Mechanics To Understand The Motion Of Celestial Bodies, He Felt, In The Words Of One Imminent Researcher, That He Had Learned The Language In Which God Recreated The Universe. Today We Are Learning The Language In Which God Created Life. We Are Gaining Ever More Awe For The Complexity, The Beauty, The Wonder Of God's Most Devine And Sacred Gift.

When I Was In England, I Experimented With Marijuana A Time Or Two, And I Didnt Like It, And I Didnt Inhale, And I Never Tried Again.

A Great Democracy Doesn't Make It Harder To Vote Than To Buy An Assault Weapon.

Assault Weapons

We Will Stand Mighty For Peace And Freedom And Maintain A Strong Defense Against Terror And Destruction. Our Children Will Sleep Free From The Threat Of Nuclear, Chemical, Or Biological Weapons.

[they Let] Friendship With The Leaders In China Obscure Our Devotion To Freedom And Democracy When Those Kids Set Up In Tiananmen Square, And I Think It Was Wrong.

Israel's Democracy Is The Bedrock On Which Our Relationship Stands. It's A Shining Example For People Around The World Who Are On The Frontline Of The Struggle For Democracy In Their Own Lands. Our Relationship Is Also Based On Our Common Interest In A More Stable And Peaceful Middle East, A Middle East That Will Finally Accord Israel The Recognition And Acceptance That Its People Have Yearned For So Long And Have Been Too Long Denied, A Middle East That Will Know Greater Democracy For All Its Peoples.

It Turns Out That Advancing Equal Opportunity And Economic Empowerment Is Both Morally Right And Good Economics. Why? Because Discrimination, Poverty And Ignorance Restrict Growth. We Know That Investments In Education, Infrastructure And Scientific And Technological Research Increase Growth. They Increase Good Jobs, And They Create New Wealth For All Of Us.

The Risk Is That As We Come Out Of This Recession, We'll Have So Much Debt To Finance, We'll Either Have To Have Inflation Or Very High Interest Rates To Continue To Borrow The Money, Or Both. That's A Risk.

Nearly Everyone Will Lie To You, Given The Right Circumstances.

I Want To Talk About One Barrier That Has Not Been Broken. I Want You To Support Hillary [clinton] For Me, Too, Because I Want To Break A Ceiling. I Am Tired Of The Stranglehold That Women Have Had On The Job Of Presidential Spouse.

We Cannot Idealize Technology. Technology Is Only And Always The Reflection Of Our Own Imagination, And Its Uses Must Be Conditioned By Our Own Values. Technology Can Help Cure Diseases, But We Can Prevent A Lot Of Diseases By Old-fashioned Changes In Behavior.

There's Never A Perfect Bipartisan Bill In The Eyes Of A Partisan.

We Are Moving People From Welfare To Work. On Welfare, We Launch A Quiet Revolution.

I Have Never Believed We Had To Choose Between Either A Clean And Safe Environment Or A Growing Economy. Protecting The Health And Safety Of All Americans Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of Our Economy's Bottom Line. And Creating Thriving Companies And New Jobs Doesn't Have To Come At The Expense Of The Air We Breathe, The Water We Drink, The Food We Eat, Or The Natural Landscape In Which We Live. We Can, And Indeed Must, Have Both.

Politics Gives Guys So Much Power That They Tend To Behave Badly Around Women. And I Hope I Never Get Into That.

American And Israel Share A Special Bond. Our Relationship Is Unique Among All Nations. Like America, Israel Is A Strong Democracy, A Symbol Of Freedom, And An Oasis Of Liberty, A Home To The Oppressed And Persecuted.

We Should Not Let Our Response To The People Who Disagree With Us Be Dictated By What They Say About Us Or Even How They Treat People We Care For. There Has To Be A Chance That We Can Find Love.

The Last Time I Checked, The Constitution Said, 'of The People, By The People And For The People.' That's What The Declaration Of Independence Says.

I Got A Letter From 13-year-old Ryan From Belfast. Now, Ryan, If You're Out In The Crowd Tonight, Here's The Answer To Your Question. No, As Far As I Know, An Alien Spacecraft Did Not Crash In Roswell, New Mexico, In 1947. And, Ryan, If The United States Air Force Did Recover Alien Bodies, They Didn't Tell Me About It, Either, And I Want To Know.

We Have No Intention Of Abandoning The American People To Unproven Theories And Extreme Positions. We're The People Party And We're Going To Stick Up For The People.

Americans - Not Just Starting Thirty Years Ago But Going Back To The Beginning, When We Were Rebelling Against King George - We've Always Been Of Two Minds About The Government, Which Is Why The Framers Wrote The Constitution The Way They Did.

I Tell You, My Fellow Americans, That If We Learned Anything From The Collapse Of The Berlin Wall And The Fall Of The Governments In Eastern Europe, Even A Totally Controlled Society Cannot Resist The Winds Of Change That Economics And Technology And Information Flow Have Imposed In This World Of Ours. That Is Not An Option. Our Only Realistic Option Is To Embrace These Changes And Create The Jobs Of Tomorrow.

I Am Trying To Be Honest With You And It Hurts Me. Now.

Throughout The Middle East, There Is A Great Yearning For The Quiet Miracle Of A Normal Life.

I Love The Hrc. The Initials Are Great.

The People Have Spoken, But It Will Take A While To Determine Exactly What They Said.

Abortion Should Not Only Be Safe And Legal, It Should Be Rare.

Everybody Counts, Everybody Deserves A Chance, Everybody Has A Responsible Role To Play And We All Do Better When We Work Together.

Working Together

A Preemptive Action Today, However Well-justified, May Come Back With Unwelcome Consequences In The Future. And Because... I've Done This. I've Ordered These Kinds Of Actions - I Don't Care How Precise Your Bombs And Your Weapons Are, When You Set Them Off, Innocent People Will Die.

It Is A Commonplace Of American Life That Immigrants Have Made Our Country Great And Continue To Make A Very Important Contribution To The Fabric Of American Life. But...under The Pressures We Face Today, We Can't Afford To Lose Control Of Our Borders, Or To Take On New Financial Burdens, At A Time When We Are Not Adequately Providing For The Jobs, The Health Care, And The Education Of Our Own People. Therefore, Immigration Must Be A Priority For This Administration.

I Mean My Life Was A Combination Of Fascination With Other People, With Politics, And With Policy, And The Impact Of Government Decisions On People's Lives And The Life Of Our Nation And The Life Of The World.

I Tried To Walk A Line Between Acting Lawfully And Testifying Falsely, But I Now Realize That I Did Not Fully Accomplish That Goal.

The Price Of Doing The Same Old Thing Is Far Higher Than The Price Of Change.

We Live In A Completely Interdependent World, Which Simply Means We Can Not Escape Each Other. How We Respond To Aids Depends, In Part, On Whether We Understand This Interdependence. It Is Not Someone Else's Problem. This Is Everybody's Problem.

You Know What Higher Interest Rates Mean. To You It Means A Higher Mortgage Payment, A Higher Car Payment, A Higher Credit Card Payment. To Our Economy, It Means Business People Will Not Borrow As Much Money, Invest As Much Money, Create As Many New Jobs, Create As Much Wealth, Raise As Many Raises.

When I Was In Office I Expressed Admiration And Respect And Even Affection For Republicans That I Knew And Liked And Cared About, And I Tried To Find Ways To Work With Them. I Think The Democrats Should Do That, And Just Keep Trying To Lower The Temperature.

Don't You Ever Orget That In The End, Our Future Is Tied To People, That It's More About Ideas Than A Tax.

To Avoid Having Bad Things Happen, Learning To Manage Your Anger And To Actually Share How You Really Feel About Something, And Get It Behind You Is One Of The Most Important Aspects Of Growing Up.

I Believe We Can Do Much More To Adapt To The Structural Changes In The Global Economy, Get High-end Manufacturing Back Here, Set Up Clusters Of Economic Activity Where You Have, Among Other Things, Continuous Retraining Of People Well Into Their Middle Years So They Never Become Irrelevant To The Current Job Market.

I Still Believe In A Place Called Hope.

Part Of Our Essential Humanity Is Paying Respect To What God Gave Us And What Will Be Here A Long Time After We're Gone.

Long Distance Relationship

Palestinians Are A Hard-working And An Incredible Community. They Have Done Remarkably Well Outside Their Country. I Have Never Met A Poor Palestinian In The United States; Every Palestinian I Know Is A College Professor Or A Doctor.

Food Is A Big Bargain In America, And You Can Go To These Places, We All Like Them, And You Get Big Portions, And They Taste Good. But They're Higher In Fat Than Ever Before. And Same Thing Has Happened, By The Way, Though, To School Menus. A Lot Of School Lunch Menus Have More Fat And More Sugar Than Ever Before.

Let Us Do The Work That Is Before Us, So That When Our Time Here Is Over We Will All Watch The Sun Go Down As We All Must, And Say Truly, We Have Prepared Our Children For The Dawn.

I'm Bill Clinton And I Think You Deserve A Change. That's Why I've Offered A Plan To Get The Economy Moving Again, Starting With A Middle-class Tax Cut.

...nixon's Subversion [of The Consititution] Consisted Of: One Presidental Lie; One Invocation Of Presidental Privilege, And Zero Criminal Offences.

The Secret To Living A Full Life With No Regrets And To Staying Young Is To Figure Out What You Believe In And Fight For It. If You Lose, Don't Give Up. If You Win, Raise The Bar, And Then Rare Back And Do Something Else. And Remember That, With The Accumulation Of Years, Our Responsibilities To The Future Grow Greater, Not Less.

The Real Differences Around The World Today Are Not Between Jews And Arabs; Protestants And Catholics; Muslims, Croats, And Serbs. The Real Differences Are Between Those Who Embrace Peace And Those Who Would Destroy It. Between Those Who Look To The Future And Those Who Cling To The Past. Between Those Who Open Their Arms And Those Who Are Determined To Clench Their Fists.

Demand That Your Government Pays More Attention. It's Immoral That People In Africa Die Like Flies Of Diseases That No One Dies Of In The United States. And The More Disease There Is, The More Political Unrest There Will Be, Leading To More Darfurs, Which The U.s. Will Have To Pay To Fix.

It Is Dangerously Destabilizing To Have Half The World On The Cutting Edge Of Technology While The Other Half Struggles On The Bare Edge Of Survival.

I Think We Need To Push Harder, We The Democrats, Because It's An Open Door For The Republicans - Prosperity Centers.

Literacy Is Not A Luxury, It Is A Right And A Responsibility. If Our World Is To Meet The Challenges Of The Twenty-first Century We Must Harness The Energy And Creativity Of All Our Citizens.

It's Good For Young People To Be Angry About Something.

The New Century Demands New Partnerships For Peace And Security. The United Nations Plays A Crucial Role, With Allies Sharing Burdens America Might Otherwise Bear Alone. America Needs A Strong And Effective U.n. I Want To Work With This New Congress To Pay Our Dues And Our Debts. We Must Continue To Support Security And Stability In Europe And Asia - Expanding Nato And Defining Its New Missions, Maintaining Our Alliance With Japan, With Korea, With Our Other Asian Allies, And Engaging China.

Everybody Knows That I Have Tougher Ethics Rules Than Any Previous President.

In Our Own Country, We Have Seen America Pay A Terrible Price For Any Form Of Discrimination, And We Have Seen Us Grow Stronger As We Have Steadily Let More And More Of Our Hatreds And Our Fears Go. As We Have Given More And More Of Our People The Chance To Live Their Dreams. That Is Why The Flame Of Our Statue Of Liberty, Like The Olympic Flame Carried All Across America By Thousands Of Citizen Heroes Will Always Burn Brighter Than The Flames That Burn Our Churches, Our Synagogues, Our Mosques.

Any Poll Is A Picture Of An Unfinished Horse Race Except The Election Day Polls.

Drugs Nearly Killed My Brother When He Was A Young Man And I Hate Them. He Fought Back. And I'm Really Proud Of Him. But I Learned Something In Going Through That Long Nightmare With Our Family. And I Can Tell You, Something Has Happened To Some Of Our Young People. They Simply Don't Think These Drugs Are Dangerous Anymore. Or They Think The Risk Is Acceptable.

The Great Thing About Not Being President Anymore Is I Can Say Whatever I Want, About Anything. Of Course [now], Nobody Really Cares What I Say. And Now I Have The Worst Of All Worlds -- My Wife Has Become The Secretary Of State, So No One Really Cares What I Say -- Unless I Mess Up.

One Of The Things That All Kids Are Taught By Their Parents Is This Old "sticks And Stones Will Break My Bones, But Words Will Never Hurt Me."

That Is, We're Into A Whole New World With The Internet, And Whenever We Sort Of Cross Another Plateau In Our Development, There Are Those Who Seek To Take Advantage Of It. So This Is A Replay Of Things That Have Happened Throughout Our History.

Though Our Challenges Are Fearsome, So Are Our Strengths. Americans Have Ever Been A Relentless, Questioning, Hopeful People.

You Don't Have To Be An Elected Official To Be A Public Servant.

Elected Officials

Public Servants

The Most Important Question Of The 21st Century Is Not What Or How Much, It Is 'how?' How Do You Propose To Turn Your Good Ideas Into Positive Changes In Other People's Lives? You Must Be The 'how Generation.'

In Speaking Powerfully And Eloquently For Mercy And Reconciliation To People Divided By Old Hatreds And Persecuted By Abuse Of Power, The Holy Father Was A Beacon Of Light Not Just For Catholics, But For All People.

Supporters Of Capital Punishment Bear A Special Responsibility To Ensure The Fairness Of This Irreversible Punishment.

An Innocent Bureaucratic Snafu.

Where Are The Jobs Going To Come From?small Business, Manufacturing And Clean Energy. Where's The Money To Finance Them? The Banks And The Corporations In America Today Have Lots Of Money That They Can Invest Right Now.

The Bush Administration Continues To Coddle China, Despite Its Continuing Crackdown On Democratic Reform, Its Brutal Subjugation Of Tibet, Its Irresponsible Export Of Nuclear And Missile Technology... Such Forbearance On Our Part Might Have Made Sense During The Cold War When China Was The Counterweight To Soviet Power. It Makes No Sense To Play The China Card Now When Our Opponents Have Thrown In Their Hand.

Just Try To Imagine What It Would Be Like To Be 300 Million Years Old.

Elvis Presley Was The First And The Best. He Is My Favorite Of All Time.

Any President That Lies To The American People Should Have To Resign.

This Remains A Very Important Opportunity For The American People To Have Their Day In Court Against Big Tobacco And Its Marketing Practices. I Urge Congress To Provide The Funding To Allow The Lawsuit To Move Forward, And Not To Shield The Tobacco Industry From The Consequences Of Its Actions.

Education Is Not A Privilege, It Is A Right!

Four Years Ago Nobody But Nuclear Physicists Had Ever Heard Of The Internet. Today Even My Cat, Socks, Has His Own Web Page. I'm Amazed At That. I Meet Kids All The Time, Been Talking To My Cat On The Internet.

Progress Changes Consciousness, And When People's Consciousness Changes, Then Their Awareness Of What Is Possible Changes As Well - A Virtuous Circle.

We Are Here To Celebrate The Completion Of The First Survey Of The Entire Human Genome. Without A Doubt, This Is The Most Important, Most Wondrous Map Ever Produced By Human Kind.

I Do Think That The Role Of The Internet, And The Way It's Bringing Everything Into The Home, Has Made A Parent's Job Much More Difficult. And It's Harder To Know What To Do And How To Do It. It's Much, Much Harder.

[my Mom] Had This Amazing Attitude In The Face Of Everything, Including When She Got Cancer.

Our Immigration Policy Is Focussed In Four Areas: First, Strengthening Border Control; Second, Protecting American Jobs By Enforcing Laws Against Illegal Immigrants At The Workplace; Third, Deporting Criminal And Deportable Aliens; Fourth, Giving Assistance To States Who Need It, And Denying Illegal Aliens Benefits For Public Services Or Welfare.

I Was Also Very Concerned About Protecting My Family.

Nothing Big Ever Came From Being Small.

Most Illegal Immigrants Are Not By Nature Lawbreakers. Most Are Looking For The Chance To Live In Dignity. Nevertheless We Must Continue To Discourage Illegal Immigration For It Undermines Control Of Our Borders...and Even More Punishes Hard-working People Who Play By The Rules And Who Wait For Their Turn To Come To The United States. Therefore We Must Enforce Our Laws, But We Will Do So With Justice And Fairness.

It Depends Upon What The Meaning Of The Word 'is' Is. If 'is' Means 'is And Never Has Been' That's One Thing - If It Means 'there Is None', That Was A Completely True Statement.

You Know, I've Always Been Really Interested In This Stuff, And I'm Going To Read This.

The Seven Principles Of Kwanzaa - Unity, Self-determinat Ion, Collective Work And Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity And Faith -- Teach Us That When We Come Together To Strengthen Our Families And Communities And Honor The Lesson Of The Past, We Can Face The Future With Joy And Optimism.

Posterity Is The World To Come; The World For Whom We Hold Our Ideals, From Whom We Have Borrowed Our Planet, And To Whom We Bear Sacred Responsibility. We Must Do What America Does Best: Offer More Opportunity To All And Demand Responsibility From All.

Just Because You Can't Do Everything, It Doesn't Mean You Shouldn't Do What You Can.

That All Depends On What "is" Is.

We Set Forth On A Journey To Bring Our Vision To Our Country, To Keep The American Dream Alive For All Who Are Willing To Work For It, To Make Our American Community Stronger, To Keep America The World's Strongest Force For Peace And Freedom And Prosperity.

We Simply Cannot Afford To Give The Reigns Of Government So Someone Who Will Double Down On Trickle Down

I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinsky. I Never Told Anybody To Lie, Not A Single Time - Never. These Allegations Are False.

We Want To Live Forever, And We're Getting There.

When I Was President, I Knew Exactly What I Wanted To Do Every Day To Bring America Together And Create A Greater Sense Of Opportunity And A Larger Sense Of Responsibility And A Stronger Sense Of Community.

More Than Any Other Nation On Earth, America Has Constantly Drawn Strength And Spirit From Wave After Wave Of Immigrants. In Each Generation, They Have Proved To Be The Most Restless, The Most Adventurous, The Most Innovative, The Most Industrious Of People. Bearing Different Memories, Honoring Different Heritages, They Have Strengthened Our Economy, Enriched Our Culture, Renewed Our Promise Of Freedom And Opportunity For All.

Our Overriding Environmental Challenge Tonight Is The Worldwide Problem Of Climate Change, Global Warming, The Gathering Crisis That Requires Worldwide Action.

I Came Of Age Believing That, No Matter What Happened, I Would Always Be Able To Support Myself.

One Way Or The Other, We Are Determined To Deny Iraq The Capacity To Develop Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Missiles To Deliver Them. That Is Our Bottom Line.

Mass Destruction

President Obama's Approach Embodies The Values, The Ideas And The Direction America Has To Take To Build The 21st-century Version Of The American Dream: A Nation Of Shared Opportunities, Shared Responsibilities, Shared Prosperity, A Shared Sense Of Community.

Behind Every Great Man There Stands A Great Woman. Behind Every Great Woman Is A Great Behind.

Behind Every Great Man

One Of The Things That I Think We Have Learned Is That We Should All Be Very Careful About Making Predictions About The Future.

We Should Make It A Crime Even To Attempt To Pollute. Our Children Should Grow Up Next To Parks, Not Poison.

$100,000 Donors Buy Access To Congress And The White House. We Believe It's Long Past Time To Clean Up Washington.

Every Time Bush Talks About Trust It Makes Chills Run Up And Down My Spine. The Way He Has Trampled On The Truth Is A Travesty Of The American Political System.

Life Is A Journey Towards Truth, We Have Something To Learn From Each Other, And Everybody Ought To Have A Chance To Make The Journey. So For Us, A Community Is Just Made Up Of Anybody Who Accepts The Rules Of The Game, Everybody Counts, Everybody Has A Role To Play, Everybody Deserves A Chance And We All Do Better When We Work Together

Government Is Not The Problem, And Government Is Not The Solution. We - The American People - We Are The Solution.

I Do Not Believe We Can Repair The Basic Fabric Of Society Until People Who Are Willing To Work Have Work. Work Organizes Life. It Gives Structure And Discipline To Life.

We Live In An Interdependent World. Every Time You Cut Off Somebody Else's Opportunities, You Shrink Your Own Horizons.

No Generation Has Had The Opportunity, As We Now Have, To Build A Global Economy That Leaves No-one Behind. It Is A Wonderful Opportunity, But Also A Profound Responsibility.

There's A Big Conservative Press Unabashedly And For The Democrats And Even People To The Left Of The Democratic Party, There's Almost Virtually No Outlets That You Can Compare With The Vast Array Of Conservative Press That's Out There.

If You Want To Be Forgiven, You Have To Extend Forgiveness, Even To People Who Aren't Smart Enough To Ask For It.

I Want To Build A Bridge To The 21st Century In Which We Create A Strong And Growing Economy To Preserve The Legacy Of Opportunity For The Next Generation By Balancing Our Budget In A Way That Protects Our Values And Ensuring That Every Family Will Be Able To Own And Protect The Value Of Their Most Important Asset, Their Home.

One Of The Real Dilemmas We Have In Our Country And Around The World Is That What Works In Politics Is Organization And Conflict. That Is, Drawing The Sharp Distinctions. But In Real Life, What Works Is Networks And Cooperation. And We Need Victories In Real Life, So We've Got To Get Back To Networks And Cooperation, Not Just Conflict. But Politics Has Always Been About Conflict, And In The Coverage Of Politics, Information Dissemination Tends To Be Organized Around Conflict As Well.

Sarah, There's A Government Inside The Government, And I Don't Control It.

If We Have The Right Preventive And Primary Care, If We Start Charging For Comprehensive Care In The Chronic Cases, 10 Percent Of The Cases Take Up Two-thirds Of The Medical Expenses, And If We Do More On Problems Like Childhood Obesity, That We Can, To Use The Parlance That's Popular In Washington, Bend The Cost Curve And Eventually Reconcile This So Our Costs Will Be Closer To Our Competitors And So We Can Cover Everybody.

Banning Human Cloning Reflects Our Humanity. It Is The Right Thing To Do. Creating A Child Through This New Method Calls Into Question Our Most Fundamental Beliefs. It Has The Potential To Threaten The Sacred Family Bonds At The Very Core Of Our Ideals And Our Society. At Its Worst, It Could Lead To Misguided And Malevolent Attempts To Select Certain Traits, Even To Create Certain Kind Of Children -- To Make Our Children Objects Rather Than Cherished Individuals.

We Know That When We Protect Our Oceans We're Protecting Our Future.

I Believe I'm A Better Authority Than Anybody Else In America On My Own Wife. I Have Never Known A Person With A Stronger Sense Of Right And Wrong In My Life Ever.

If We Were Being Attached By Space Aliens, We Wouldn't Be Playing These Kinds Of Games.

When Personal Freedom's Being Abused, You Have To Move To Limit It. That's What We Did In The Announcement I Made Last Weekend On The Public Housing Projects, About How We're Going To Have Weapon Sweeps

Rarely Have Americans Lived Through So Much Change, In So Many Ways, In So Short A Time. Quietly, But With Gathering Force, The Ground Has Shifted Beneath Our Feet As We Have Moved Into An Information Age, A Global Economy, A Truly New World.

Somehow We All End Up Paying For What We Do.

I'm Proud To Say That There Is Not A Single Russian Nuclear Missile Pointed At An American Child.

Nuclear Missiles

I'm Sure I Spent More Time In Texas Than Anybody Else Who Had Run For President Recently.

At The Same Time, Old Confrontations Have Taken On Frightening Urgency, Especially The India-pakistan Conflict Over Kashmir And The Violent Stalemate In The Middle East. Progress On These And Other Global Challenges Requires Us To Develop A Larger Strategy For American Foreign Policy, Rooted In A Fundamental Commitment To Move The World From Interdependence To An Integrated Global Community Committed To Peace And Prosperity, Freedom And Security.

When You Get Asked Hundreds Of Questions, It's Not Possible To Remember The Answer To Every One.

You Cannot Have An Integrated World And Have Your Say All The Time. America Can Lead The World Towards That, But We Cannot Dominate And Run The World In That Direction. There Is A Big Difference.

The Purpose Of Government Is To Rein In The Rights Of The People.

It's Heartbreaking To See So Many People Trapped In A Web Of Enforced Idleness, Deep Debt, And Gnawing Self-doubt.

Trending Author

Claude Levi-Strauss

Colleen McCullough

Category